NewsChannel-8 in TB just petered out on rain chances for Friday. Sucks! Did notice some 'early-summer'-like convection happening to my east this evening. Will some seabreeze action start early this year???? I guess we'll find that out in May sometime; hopefully not much sooner, and certainly not later.

JRnOldsmar wrote:NewsChannel-8 in TB just petered out on rain chances for Friday. Sucks! Did notice some 'early-summer'-like convection happening to my east this evening. Will some seabreeze action start early this year???? I guess we'll find that out in May sometime; hopefully not much sooner, and certainly not later.

Good Thursday Morning folks..nice day ahead once again for us...............Blogs Coffee is perking for when you get here...grab a cup and relax for a few minutes before heading out....enjoy,Have a wonderful day everyone..weekend is getting closer and April just a few days away too.

LargoFL wrote:Good Thursday Morning folks..nice day ahead once again for us...............Blogs Coffee is perking for when you get here...grab a cup and relax for a few minutes before heading out....enjoy,Have a wonderful day everyone..weekend is getting closer and April just a few days away too.

Morning All, Sorry its been awhile. Flying solo at work many hours.Looks like Friday will be hit or miss in the rain department.Hope someone gets some. Most likely water dipper he up north of us.Have a great day!!!!!!!!John Z-hiils

(clip) NWS Tampa.........On Friday, a mid/upper level trough will dig into the SE U.S.allowing a surface trough to move through our area bringing somerain chances with it. Mid/upper level support will be moving awayfrom our area so will likely end up with a broken line of showersand isolated thunderstorms moving through the area. But with as dryas it has been the last few months, we will take any rainfall we canget.

LONG TERM (Friday Night - Wednesday)...Progressive pattern continues with upper low over the NE US movesinto the Western Atlantic as upper ridging builds from the N Caribthrough the region. Surface high pressure moves N of the area withlow level flow quickly veering easterly bringing Atlantic moistureover the state for a warm and humid weekend.

Next system to move through thru the region next week with southernstream upper low from the Desert SW Sunday quickly moving throughthe Deep South Mon/Tue pushing surface storm system and attendantcold front through area the with a chance of showers andstorms.

.THUNDERSTORM IMPACT...An upper disturbance approaching from the west will help producescattered showers and some embedded lightning storms from latemorning and into the afternoon. A few storms will be possibleinitially along the I-4 corridor this morning with a developingchance of a storm or two across metro Orlando to the Space coastsouthward into the afternoon. The main hazard in any strongerstorms will be possibility of brief wind gusts of 35 to 45 mphalong with occasional lightning. Any storms will move toward theEast to Northeast around 30 mph.

well almost 4am Friday here..no rain yet but it looks promising for later this morning here on the gulf coast...so far I don't see any real warnings, just chance of thunderstorms etc...still too early yet.good luck on the rain today folks!!

Good Friday Morning Folks! an interesting weather day today,hopefully some area's will be some much needed rainfall....................well BLOGS COFFEE is perking for when you get here..grab a cup and enjoy,have a wonderful day folks...TGIF

LargoFL wrote:Good Friday Morning Folks! an interesting weather day today,hopefully some area's will be some much needed rainfall....................well BLOGS COFFEE is perking for when you get here..grab a cup and enjoy,have a wonderful day folks...TGIF

Thanks for the coffee, Largo. Extra dark roast today. Hmmmm...

Woke up to the sound of rain. Just light sprinkles so far. Best chance of decent rain, here on the coast, looks to be south of us.

LargoFL wrote:Good Friday Morning Folks! an interesting weather day today,hopefully some area's will be some much needed rainfall....................well BLOGS COFFEE is perking for when you get here..grab a cup and enjoy,have a wonderful day folks...TGIF

LargoFL wrote:Good Friday Morning Folks! an interesting weather day today,hopefully some area's will be some much needed rainfall....................well BLOGS COFFEE is perking for when you get here..grab a cup and enjoy,have a wonderful day folks...TGIF

Thanks for the coffee, Largo. Extra dark roast today. Hmmmm...

Woke up to the sound of rain. Just light sprinkles so far. Best chance of decent rain, here on the coast, looks to be south of us.

good morning JR..yeah rain here too...NWS is saying more maybe Monday and again Thursday...

Checking in from Levy county this AM. Well my rain gauge failed me again. For some reason there was nothing in it. So, long story short, I have developed a new methodology for measuring rainfall that appears to be much better than the traditional methods. The measurement I came up with for my place today is 10" of much needed rainfall. You see, the rain drops on my deck were spaced out about every 10"! Hope everyone gets as much or more than I did. (Warning this might be Fake News)

Happy to report 100% rain coverage on the sidewalk, and a whopping 0.03 in the bucket. Forecast showing we still have a chance for more, but I don't see it, and the front coming through overnight. Breeze has picked up a bit.

JRnOldsmar wrote:Happy to report 100% rain coverage on the sidewalk, and a whopping 0.03 in the bucket. Forecast showing we still have a chance for more, but I don't see it, and the front coming through overnight. Breeze has picked up a bit.

yeah about the same here JR but..every drop counts now for sure..was nice to see the street and sidewalk wet

I just had the opportunity, due to: (contract wording) 'clear evidence of treatment zone disruption', to get free-retreatment for termites. Originally treated in 1994, nary any signs of termites -- ever. They pumped in a bunch of fipronil down through the foundation. Does this sound correct to you? I looked it up a bit and found it's half-life to be 4m to 1y. Anything I need to know, for future consideration?

waterdipper wrote:Checking in from Levy county this AM. Well my rain gauge failed me again. For some reason there was nothing in it. So, long story short, I have developed a new methodology for measuring rainfall that appears to be much better than the traditional methods. The measurement I came up with for my place today is 10" of much needed rainfall. You see, the rain drops on my deck were spaced out about every 10"! Hope everyone gets as much or more than I did. (Warning this might be Fake News)

Okay Waterdipper,

Your post gave me a much needed laugh this Friday afternoon! I like the way you think; I might adopt your new methodology.

Just in case you missed "seeing" your rain drops every 10" apart this morning.........

My local report. YTD average rainfall through March is 10.03". Actual has been 4.05" so running at approx. 6" below normal since January with 40% of the 30 year average. November was well below avg. Dec was the only month at average but about 3/4's of the rain fell in one day.

Edit: been keep records going back several decades (ok, only to 2012). 2012 was my driest start to the year with 4" though March but ended up being the wettest year when said and done with 64.02"

Good Saturday Morning and happy April 1st everyone!!.....Blogs Coffee is set to perk when you get here..grab a cup and relax!!....nice warm day ahead for us,im reading the early NWS long range discussions..seems rain and or storm chances might be going UP for us Monday thru Thursday..we'll see how this plays out for us...have a great day everyone!

well next week the front we need to stay alert for is the Thursday one..that it seems.. is the strong one and could drop our temps back into the mid 70's if long range discussions verify..but its many days away..and we all know things change huh...well enjoy the weekend folks!!